Dimensions of Conflict Behavior Within and Between Nations, 1955-1960 (ICPSR 5021)

Citation

Rummel, Rudolph J., and Tanter, Raymond. Dimensions of Conflict Behavior Within and Between Nations, 1955-1960. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05021.v2

Summary

These data focus on the dimensions of domestic and
foreign conflict behavior of nations in the period 1955-1960.
The product of two separate studies conducted by Rudolph J. Rummel
and Raymond Tanter utilizing identical variables for the time
periods 1955-1957 and 1958-1960, respectively, this dataset gauges
domestic conflict behavior with measures such as number of
assassinations, general strikes, major government crises, purges,
riots, anti-government demonstrations, revolutions, domestic
violence deaths, and the presence or absence of guerilla warfare.
Other variables such as the number of anti-foreign demonstrations,
negative sanctions, protests, countries with which diplomatic
relations were severed, expulsion or recall of ambassadors,
threats, mobilizations, accusations, troop movements, deaths in
foreign violence, presence or absence of military action, and war
measure foreign conflict behavior.

Citation

Rummel, Rudolph J., and Tanter, Raymond. Dimensions of Conflict Behavior Within and Between Nations, 1955-1960. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05021.v2

Time Period(s)

Universe

Nations with populations at least 800,000 in the first
year of the study that were independent at least two years before
the first year of the study.

Data Source

(1) Russett, Bruce M., David J. Singer, and Melvin
Small. "National Political Units in the Twentieth Century: A
Standardized List." THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW 62, 3 (1968),
935-950, (2) THE NEW YORK TIMES INDEX, (3) THE NEW INTERNATIONAL YEARBOOK,
(4) FACTS ON FILE, (5) BRITANNICA BOOK OF THE YEAR, (6) DEADLINE DATA
ON WORLD AFFAIRS, and (7) KEESING'S CONTEMPORARY ARCHIVES

Data Type(s)

Original Release Date

1984-05-03

Version Date

1992-02-16

Version History

1984-05-03 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Performed consistency checks.

Notes

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.

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